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Adaptation of Chiung Yao's novel "Fire and Rain".
Director
Screenplay
Status
Released
Original Language
ZH
Lu Yi-ping
Years after her boyfriend left her for the big city and promised to bring her there after he’s settled down, a Chinese woman sets out on a journey to be reunited with him.
Two married couples adjust to the vast social and economic changes taking place in China from the 1980s to the present.
Ah-Ching and his friends have just finished school in their island fishing village, and now spend most of their time drinking and fighting. Three of them decide to go to the port city of Kaohsiung to look for work. They find an apartment through relatives, and Ah-Ching is attracted to the girlfriend of a neighbor. There they face the harsh realities of the big city.
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The relationship of a couple who meet by chance in New York City is put to the test when they encounter a life or death circumstance.
Clara and her two sons escape from her abusive husband with little more than their car and plan to start over in New York. After the car towed away, the family meets Alice, who gets them into an emergency shelter. While stealing food at a Russian restaurant called ‘Winter Palace’, Clara meets Marc, who has been given the chance to help the old eatery regain its former glory. The ‘Winter Palace’ soon becomes a place of unexpected encounters between people who are all undergoing some sort of crisis and whom fate has now brought together.
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Three Chinese friends build a successful English language school to help Chinese teenagers fulfil their dreams.
A pair of twin brothers from East L.A. choose to live their lives differently and end up on opposite sides of the law.
